Hobbies
Confessions of an inept handyman
Ann had been telling me forever that the hot tap in the bathroom sink needed looking at. It didn’t turn on fully, apparently, so it was pot luck whether the flow was enough to tell [more…]
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Engineering
Development of the Merlin Engine
The Rolls Royce Merlin was a V12, 27 litre engine and originally was a private venture so was financed entirely by Rolls Royce and its backers. Designated the PV12 it followed the Rolls Royce trend [more…]
Arts
A Wiltshire Junior School, 1953 to 1957
Change has always come slowly to rural Wiltshire, in 1957 the 1944 Education Act hadn’t affected my schooling to any great extent. The school I moved to after the infant school was one that took [more…]
Arts
Lloyds of London ‘My Word is my Bond’ A Page in the Diary
6am: Unleash bowel movement Purging yesterdays Petrol washed translucent flake cocaine, continental lager and sundry sweet meats. 6.10am: Get up. 6.11am: Think about Killing Myself. Shower/power wank while thinking of the Receptionists Feet , toe [more…]
Physics
The Sun – page 2 unfortunately….
Previously, we looked at our Sun and how it works however only a small part was covered. We saw that quantum tunneling allowed protons to fuse in conditions that classical physics – that relying only [more…]
20th Century
School, and finding a love, of learning
I was an inquisitive child, I wanted to know how, and why. Mum was one of those who thought ‘just because’ was an answer. Dad was much better but worked several jobs so wasn’t around [more…]
Physics
20th Century
Off Grid Living, 1945 to 1953
I lived for the first seven years of my life in a hamlet on the western fringe of Salisbury Plain. At about six hundred and sixty feet above sea level it was a fairly bleak [more…]
20th Century
Foraging for food in the Fifties
I was born in 1945, the war had just ended, the world was a very different place then. As a child food was one of my primary concerns, it was difficult to find enough fuel [more…]